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Simple yet significant.

"The Vulgarians" appears at first to be a children's picture book. It is, however, a moral fable for adults, at least a moral fable for those adults who believe "the country was better before" and "they don't make civilizations like they used to." Is not that "The Vulgarians" is simply...Read more...

"The Vulgarians" appears at first to be a children's picture book. It is, however, a moral fable for adults, at least a moral fable for those adults who believe "the country was better before" and "they don't make civilizations like they used to." Is not that "The Vulgarians" is simply a cranky old conservatives diatribe. It has a lot to say about how modern American society has become a cluttered, consumerist-oriented, narcisistic cluster of people on a treadmill consensually labeled "progress." It says that as population density has increased, personal responsibility has declined. It says that as our standard of living has increased, our standards have declined. It says a lot of things that people don't necessarily want to hear, but it says them in a particularly interesting and intertaining manner. The language is very simple and straightforeward. The illustrations are subtle and attractive. It's easy to read, but it's not easy to dismiss or forget.